Debian 9 (stretch) on Sony Vaio Z SVZ1311C5E

Back on Debian. Would prefer a non-systemd distribution but sadly FreeBSD doesn't support various bits of hardware in this machine, and I'm not fussed on being hideously behind-the-times software wise or sitting on the bleeding edge. It's come a long way since Wheezy. Stretch has everything working out of the box with a few things to note.

• Use the "non-free" installation media. This gets you the wireless firmware required for installation without ethernet. 
• I wanted RAID1 and UEFI installation. Bit of messing around manually configuring the partition structure - and you NEED to enable UEFI "portable device" installation on this machine.
• Bluetooth needs switching on.
• apt-get install rfkill
• rfkill list all
• rfkill enable (whatever the ID of hci0 is)
• I've ended up on MATE this time. It's like XFCE but more polished, and everything seems to work without messing. But to cleanup after other DE experiments:
• apt-get purge `dpkg --get-selections | grep xfce | cut -f 1`
• apt-get autoremove
• Monitor size is reported incorrectly.
• xrandr --prop
• Gets the real display size (290x160mm)
• We know this is actually not quite correct due to real life measurement and 16:9 ratio. It's 290 wide, but over 160 high (163)
• xdpyinfo | grep -B2 resolution
• Shows the wrong display size
• Drop to single user as root (kill the display manager) and run:
• Xorg -configure
• Copy the created xorg.conf into /etc/X11/xorg.conf
• Edit and add to the "Monitor" section
• DisplaySize 290 163
• Restart the display manager
• Samba doesn't browse properly.
• /etc/samba/smb.conf
• Add to [global] section
• netbios name = ETHER
• name resolve order = bcast wins lmhosts hosts
• Comment out/"Yes"
• dns proxy  = no
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